A lawyer’s perspective: what does South Africa’s genocide court case in the Hague mean for the war in Gaza? by Donald Rothwell | Jan 12, 2024
The genocide court case against Israel started in the International Court of Justice on Thursday. Israel will vigorously define itself, but even if it does lose, what effect will it have on the war in Gaza?
Source: Michael West Media – investigative journalists – always independent
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Mainstream journalism used to tend to challenge the powers-that-be in order to truly comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable in an increasingly unjust global existence. Now, so much of it has become a profession motivated more by a regular company paycheck and frequently published name/face with stories or opinions [a buck and a byline?].
Also troubling is that mainstream news-outlet websites [e.g. The Washington Post’s] are increasingly converting to ‘pay-to-say’ formats, where the reader is allowed to consume the article without charge but must buy a subscription in order to comment on the article.
Meantime, there still are reporters and editors who will (as though with big innocent fawn-like eyes) reply to accusations of subjective journalism with, ‘Who, me? I’m just the messenger.’ … Whatever the news media may be, they’re not ‘just the messenger’; nor are they but a reflection of the community — or their consumer base, for that matter — in which they circulate. Perhaps such compromised or subjective journalism has become normalized.
As one who has consumed the news regularly since the late 1980s, I’d say the field of journalism has problematically become overly corporatized thus more readily externally manipulated and compromised.
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